UGA 2011 MFA graduate An Pham is featured in the Atlanta Journal Constitution! Pham’s work is featured in Spruill Gallery’s “Emerging Artists 2011” show.  From the article: “The artist works with a wide palette of materials, from handmade paper and old books to plastic strips, scotch tape and – most wondrously in this exhibit — rubber bands. Pham crochets, plaits, knots, coils and otherwise manipulates this mundane item into mysterious sculptures, which she presents like the gifts they are in hand-made boxes. It’s a good thing that Pham wants you to touch them because they are irresistibly tactile. They also give off that rubber-band smell and, more profoundly, the feeling of intensity that comes from the hours of repetition and minute manipulations that making these works require. She manipulates books and their pages with similar inventiveness. I’m watching her.” Read the entire article here: http://www.accessatlanta.com/atlanta-events/lucha-rodriguez-at-swan-1143048.html Visit Pham’s website here: http://www.an-pham.com/
Many of you Georgians and Dali enthusiasts have probably already heard that Dali’s late works will be on exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (http://www.high.org/) on August 7th through January 9th. Today, the AJC ran an article about the museum’s unique marketing scheme for this show. From ajc.com: The High art of selling Dali: “The Late Work” At the moment, a googly-eyed Dalí, his famous curled mustache reaching toward the clouds, stares down from 10 48-foot-wide billboards over interstates and major intersections around town. Oh, but this is only the beginning of the marketing assault. Soon 2,500 posters with the same image will show up in storefront windows and elsewhere, and countless coasters sporting the photo will be supplied to 30 restaurants and bars. On the flip side: a coupon for $3 off admission or $10 off a membership. In an even grander gesture, Dalí’s signature mustache will be emblazoned on the nose of a Delta 757. The famed ‘stache also is a key graphic element in a different series of posters that don’t even mention the High Museum or the exhibit’s title, but directs viewers to the Web site www.fantasticmustache.org. The idea of the 1,000-plus “unbranded” posters is to create a sense of intrigue about the show, especially among the 20- and 30-something demographic. “We are hoping to target new audiences through a creative campaign that’s not in keeping with our traditional marketing efforts,” High spokeswoman Nicole Taylor explained. Read more about the history of the iconic mustache and the exhibition: http://www.accessatlanta.com/atlanta-events/the-high-art-of-579303.html